Home Remodelers Betting on a Rebound
(MCT)—Residential contractors are hoping that tight-fisted consumers will decide they need a new bathroom. Or maybe it’s time for those old kitchen counters to go. Perhaps it would be better to add another bedroom than move? After three years of slumping business,...Mortgages Improve, Delinquencies Rise
While delinquencies and defaults slowly improve in the housing economy as a whole, FHA’s portfolio has not shared the same good fortune, creating increased pressure on the agency to reduce risk and increase costs to its borrowers, most of whom are first-time buyers....Home Economics: Saving Power Costs in the House
(MCT)—Winter has been relatively mild and virtually snow-free so far in many regions. That’s helped take the chill off utility costs. In fact, the people who monitor such things say electric bills are down, especially in areas like the mid-Atlantic. But there’s a way...Housing Starts Rise 1.5 Percent from Upwardly Revised Numbers in January
Building on significant upward revisions to numbers for the previous two months, nationwide production of new single-family homes and apartments increased 1.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of nearly 700,000 units in January, according to newly released...Your Place: More about Shore Home Dampness
(MCT)—In a recent column, a newly minted Jersey Shore homeowner asked for help making his damp abode drier. He said he’d been told that building code mandated that the vapor barrier be up against the floor over the crawl space, but the 2-year-old solid oak flooring...
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